{Easter Bunny Wishes}

Hello and welcome to my blog! I hope you are having a nice Monday. We are having  a quiet day after having a busy weekend. Today I created an Easter card using an adorable digital image from Pink Cat Studios. I colored the image with promarkers. Thanks to Cyndi from The Scrappy Chick Boutique I had some new paper to play with today, the "Salt Air" collection from Cosmo Cricket. I machine stitched around my layers added SU ribbon, and finished off the card with the sentiment from A Muse Studios "Essential Sentiments", and roses from Recollections. I paper pieced my balloons to add some dimension to the card. I'm happy with the way my card turned out! Today I am playing along with a handful of challenges:

Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #113

Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge #78 - Furry Friends

Daring Cardmakers - Spring Fling

OTWC Challenge #51 - Easter / Inspiration Picture

Stampin for the Weekend Challenge # 7 - Easter

{Easter Chicks}

Good Afternoon and welcome to my blog! I hope everyone had a nice weekend, as always ours went by much too quickly. Today I was able to play for a bit in my card room thanks to a couple of sleepy boys and I created this fun shabby-chic Easter card. The chicks are a digital image from Pink Cat Studios. I colored them with Pro-Markers and cut them out with my Cutterbee paper snips. The beautiful patterned paper is the new "Kitch" collection by Girls Paperie. I bought the 6x6 sampler pack from Claudia and Company. I really love the sampler packs. I never make it thru an entire paper pad, so the samplers are perfect for me. Anyways, I cut the paper into 4  squares and matted them with GP white card stock. I then used my Janome to add the zig-zag stitching around all 4 pieces. I then attached them to a Kraft card base. The nice Nestabilities-like shape was cut out using my Cricut and SCAL software. I attached the chicks with foam dots and added the vintage lace and bow. I thought pearls would be a fun way to accent the border of the large shape, and then I added the pretty mini rosettes from Michael's Recollections collection. I added a pearl accent below the roses also. The Easter sentiment is from  A Muse Studios.


Today I am playing along with several challenges:

Etsy Inspired Challenge # 134 - Think Fast Designs - Here is the picture I chose as inspiration:

Raise the Bar Challenge #61 - Hey Chick

The Crazy Challenge # 62 - Easter

Digi Design House Challenge - Stitches

The Pink Elephant Challenge #97 - Easter

Woodware USA Challenge #22 - Anything Goes

Creative Inspirations Challenge #57 - Easter

Totally Gorjuss Challenge #75 - Fluffy

Paper Play Challenge Week 14 - Critters Galore

I Love ProMarkers Challenge #60 - Easter

Simon Says Stamp Challenge Blog - It's Time For Spring/Easter

Anything Goes Challenge # 38 - Pearls

{Cupcake Inspirations Challenge #105}

Hello and welcome to another week at Cupcake Inspirations! This week we are being sponsored by Glitterbabe's Digis. Our inspiration picture this week is one of my favorites so far!  

Aren't they just the cutest! For my card I used a cute Glitterbabe's Easter Bunny image. I colored it with pro-markers and Stampin' Up pastels, and accented the picture with SU bling. The patterned paper is also from Stampin Up and features several patterns in bashful blue. And since I am on a bakers twine kick I had to finish off the card with pink bakers twine.  Speaking of bakers twine I am giving away several different colors of bakers twine from "The Twinery, and lots of buttons and flowers here, so be sure to comment on my blog candy post for your chance to win! If you get a chance to play we would love for you to join us at Cupcake Inspirations this week!